Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan

Marines with Marine Aircraft Group 12 used a KC-130J Hercules aircraft to assist the U.S. Coast Guard rescuing two mariners stranded 60 nautical miles northwest of Chuuk Island near Guam at 2:00 p.m. June 6, 2012.

The Marines spotted a skiff containing the two mariners, aged 24 and 32, dropped a life raft near them containing survival equipment, and radioed their location to the Coast Guard. The men were picked up approximately 2.5 hours later by a civilian bulk carrier.

MAG-12 is primarily based at Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, and was participating in Exercise Geiger Fury in Guam and Tinian at the time. For more information, contact the Sector Guam public affairs officer, LT Patrick Moon, at 671-687-0922.